Angelus Lupus
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Ok, now you've said that, it's obvious.
Bad plot holes in good movies...
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They're also lucky anyone would want to touch that phone after the adventure it had.
NAZGÛL
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steveo
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my question exactly after watching this. That's a major plot hole.
SmilingOtter
Master Member
Which will be answered in Apollo 19 no doubt... 
As for TWOK, why bother looking for a lifeless planet at all, when there are plenty of nebulae (guaranteed to be lifeless) that will magically transform into planets when hit by the Genesis device?
As for TWOK, why bother looking for a lifeless planet at all, when there are plenty of nebulae (guaranteed to be lifeless) that will magically transform into planets when hit by the Genesis device?
dbalschi
Sr Member
Not explained but wouldn't the footage be at mission control?
Nope. Doc comes back to pick up Marty and Jennifer the morning of Saturday, October 26th, 1985. Marty returns to 1985 from 1885 on Sunday at 11am. The DeLorean is destroyed, Marty gets his truck and picks up Jennifer, then encounters Needles, who narrowly avoids hitting a Rolls Royce.
When Doc arrives to pick up Marty and Jennifer, the accident is still 24+ hours away.
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The Rock-a-who
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Maybe Doc just wasn't thinking 4th dimensionally at the time :lol
IndyBlues
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In the baseball film, The Natural, there is a huge plot hole, that I only recently caught.
At the end of the film, The Knights are playing the Pirates in the final game for the pennant. The Knights are down 2-0 in the last inning. Two men are on base with Roy Hobbs(Redford) up to the plate. He hits a home run to bring three runs in to win the pennant.
YAAAAAAAYY, right? Nope. Thing is, the Knights were away, in Pittsburgh for that final game. The Pirates would have had the last "at bat". Nope,...Knights win, and Roy Hobbs is forever immortalized.
Still love that movie.
Mike
At the end of the film, The Knights are playing the Pirates in the final game for the pennant. The Knights are down 2-0 in the last inning. Two men are on base with Roy Hobbs(Redford) up to the plate. He hits a home run to bring three runs in to win the pennant.
YAAAAAAAYY, right? Nope. Thing is, the Knights were away, in Pittsburgh for that final game. The Pirates would have had the last "at bat". Nope,...Knights win, and Roy Hobbs is forever immortalized.
Still love that movie.
Mike
robn1
Master Member
Stage 2 was deep underground. Stage 3 was on the surface. I don't see the problem. (And I'm a fully qualified 23rd Century terraforming scientist.
There's nothing to suggest that stage 2 would be surface only, it looked to me like it would be a rework of the entire planet. And Regula was described as a planetoid, I figure they wanted a larger body for the big test.
TechDante
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did diva bring a bomb on the ship. i remeber zorg broght the little door mounted one which he deactivated but then the last surviving Mangalore detinated his own bomb (which was coincidentally at exactly the samw time as zogs)
ok in limitless he hires a scientist to replicate the drug but through his own monolog he states he is able to learn new skills in a matter of days, why not just study chemestry and cut out the middle man
Tilandra
New Member
Either way it doesn't matter. Any scientist I know would start with a fresh, non-modified base material. The fact that it had been modified by a previous experiment made it a non-viable test site, no matter if it was on the surface or not. If something unexpected happened, they'd have no way of knowing if it was from the previous test "mixing" with the new test.
Like your chem teacher says, start with a clean beaker.
dbalschi
Sr Member
It actually could have happened that way. Home team getting last at bat wasn't an official rule until 1950. Before that it was decided by a coin flip.
Lightning
Master Member
Damn, I was afraid of that. Didn't double check my dates before hand. Still though, its the last day before the accident. They needed to go that day, even though they didn't have to leave at that very minute. Stll enough of a compressed timescale to cause Doc to get flustered.
IndyBlues
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dbalschi
Sr Member
I didn't either until I looked it up a few years ago when I thought the same thing. Somehow I doubt the filmmakers thought of that though.
Jedi2016
Sr Member
I thought of that, too, but then I remembered that David was sent there ahead of the team, he's the one that set up all the lights and stuff. I always assumed he moved whatever was left of the body.
Back to the Terminator and "they all look like Arnie", they didn't. There's a T-800 in the first film (during one of the future war segments) that clearly isn't Arnold. There were quite a few like him, obviously, but he wasn't the only model. There was supposed to be a scene in T2 showing the future segment where they send back Kyle and the second terminator, and John has to look through the ranks of deactivated Terminators until he finds a Model 101 (Arnold) to reprogram and send back. A lot of the problems in the first two films aren't so much plot holes as they were actually thought out ahead of time, they just didn't bother to explain them on-screen.
Having the very first production T-800 in Terminator: Salvation just happen to be a 101 was pure fan service (but pretty damn cool nonetheless). I seem to recall that film had quite a few holes in it, too.
Another one that I always think of when I watch the film: In Return of the Jedi, when Luke is fighting the Rancor, he sees the button on the wall, picks up a skull from the floor, and throws it to push the button and close the door. Hello.. you're a Jedi.. Use the frikkin' FORCE to push the button, you idiot.
Zombie_61
Master Member
Maybe I'm wrong, but I always thought it was the bullet ricocheting off of the gauges that caused Napier's facial trauma, not glass from the gauges; i.e. Napier shoots, Batman deflects the projectile, it ricochets off of the panel and pierces both of Napier's cheeks. I know this doesn't explain the miraculous healing powers of a low-rent underworld doctor, but bullet wounds would be more likely to cause the type and degree of facial trauma Napier experienced than shards of glass.
darthgordon
Sr Member
Except that it was a single bullet that somehow damaged just his cheeks. Both cheeks were damaged... and the damage looked more like his cheeks were shredded than a bullet hole.
It was probably more than just shards of glass though... all sorts of shrapnel would be coming out of those gauges.
It was probably more than just shards of glass though... all sorts of shrapnel would be coming out of those gauges.
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